NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs AMD Radeon R9 M360

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM and AMD Radeon R9 M360 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

AMD Radeon R9 M360

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 month(s) later
Around 31% higher core clock speed: 1176 MHz vs 900 MHz
Around 30% higher boost clock speed: 1201 MHz vs 925 MHz
2.6x more texture fill rate: 76.86 GTexel / s vs 29.6 GTexel / s
2x more pipelines: 1024 vs 512
2.6x better floating-point performance: 2,460 gflops vs 947.2 gflops
6.2x more memory clock speed: 7012 MHz vs 1125 MHz
3.9x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 76.687 vs 19.479
Around 55% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 890.785 vs 575.773

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	26 November 2015 vs 5 May 2015
Core clock speed	1176 MHz vs 900 MHz
Boost clock speed	1201 MHz vs 925 MHz
Texture fill rate	76.86 GTexel / s vs 29.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1024 vs 512
Floating-point performance	2,460 gflops vs 947.2 gflops
Memory clock speed	7012 MHz vs 1125 MHz
Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	76.687 vs 19.479
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	890.785 vs 575.773

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 M360

Around 19% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 34.15 vs 28.659

Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	34.15 vs 28.659

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 M360

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)

GPU 1

GPU 2

76.687

19.479

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)

GPU 1

GPU 2

890.785

575.773

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)

GPU 1

GPU 2

28.659

34.15

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM	AMD Radeon R9 M360
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	76.687	19.479
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	890.785	575.773
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	28.659	34.15
PassMark - G3D Mark		1812
PassMark - G2D Mark		396
Geekbench - OpenCL		8083
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		1.902
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		87.811
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		2801
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		1623
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3360
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		2801
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		1623
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3360

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM	AMD Radeon R9 M360
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0	GCN 1.0
Code name	GM206	Tropo
Launch date	26 November 2015	5 May 2015
Place in performance rating	1001	1002
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Design		AMD Radeon R9 300 Series
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1201 MHz	925 MHz
Core clock speed	1176 MHz	900 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,460 gflops	947.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	1024	512
Texture fill rate	76.86 GTexel / s	29.6 GTexel / s
Transistor count	2,940 million	1,500 million
Compute units		8
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Eyefinity
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None
Bus support		PCIe 3.0
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	12
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Mantle
OpenCL		Not Listed
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	112.2 GB / s	72 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 bit
Memory clock speed	7012 MHz	1125 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
DualGraphics
FreeSync
HD3D
PowerTune
Switchable graphics
ZeroCore